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10.02.2025
"People are social learners - all their lives."
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The Psychology of Digital Teaching and Learning: Prof. Dr. Marcus Specht is now working on this topic at the CATALPA research center.
31.01.2025
Improving teaching and learning at universities with AI research
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Time savings for lecturers, tailored support for students: CATALPA - Center of Advanced Technology for Assisted Learning and Predictive Analytics - at the FernUniversität in Hagen has now presented AI-based prototypes that can significantly improve everyday teaching and learning at the university.
10.01.2025
Marcus Specht takes on new professorship
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At the beginning of the year, Prof. Dr. Marcus Specht took over the research professorship "Learning Sciences in Higher Education" at CATALPA. "I am looking forward to advancing research in the field of learning with AI," says Specht. "CATALPA offers optimal conditions for this.
06.12.2024
Designing fair e-assessments
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Do justice to the diversity of students and thereby make exams more valid - sounds obvious, but is often accompanied by complex challenges. The NOVA:ea (InNOVAtionscluster E-Assessment) research project aims to do just that.
04.12.2024
Curios about the possibilities educational technologies offer
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The AI.EDU Research Lab, with Claudia de Witt and her team, has been part of the CATALPA project from the very beginning. Since 2018, they have been researching how novel educational technologies can be used in a didactically meaningful way in higher education. An interview with Prof. Dr. Claudia de Witt, Silke Wrede and Lars van Rijn.
26.09.2024
Using AI to explore language learning
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How can AI improve the quality of language testing? A CATALPA project is doing the basic research here. An insight on “European Day of Languages” on September 26.
13.09.2024
From Stereotype Threat to Learning Analytics - CATALPA at the DGP Congress
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From learning analytics to group cohesion in online courses and stereotypical perceptions - CATALPA is represented with various contributions at the 53rd Congress of the German Psychological Society (DGP) in Vienna.
05.09.2024
Workshop on Recommender Systems
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Deadline extended!!! The CATALPA project AI.EDU 2.0 invites you to a workshop at the DELFI Conference on Educational Technologies (September 9-11, 2024 in Fulda). The focus is on recommender systems in the context of higher education. Deadline for the Call for Participation is now July 31st, 2024.
04.09.2024
How universities handle crises and conflicts
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How can universities prepare for turbulent times - the Middle East conflict, the war in Ukraine, the climate crisis, the AI revolution? This is the topic of Dr. Len Ole Schäfer's research.
30.08.2024
Four CATALPA topics at Learning AID
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Generative AI, (trusted) learning analytics, formative feedback - CATALPA presented four different topics at the Learning AID in Bochum, Germany, from September 2-3.
14.08.2024
CATALPA presenting itself at the Campusfest
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CATALPA offered hands-on science at the current FernUniversität Campusfest. "AI and virtual reality - revolution for our everyday lives?" was the topic of the opening lecture by Prof. Dr. Torsten Zesch and Prof. Dr. Thomas Ludwig on Roter Platz.
14.08.2024
What color is that? AI research by Marie Bexte
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Artificial intelligence (AI) is set to make our everyday lives easier in the future - including in teaching at FernUni. Marie Bexte found out that AI is not yet good at recognizing colors.
